gomo learning is delighted to announce the global launch of the gomo learning suite at Learning Technologies 2015. The gomo learning suite is a complete e-learning solution comprising gomo’s award-winning authoring tool and an all-new product, gomo hosting & analytics. The gomo learning suite allows subscribers to seamlessly create, host, update and track beautiful multi-device learning from a single place. There is no other authoring solution on the market today which allows for both multi-device content creation and hosting, distribution and analytics capability. gomo’s Managing Director Mike Alcock said: "The gomo learning suite takes us even further ahead in the e-learning marketplace. In addition to our award-winning, cloud-based authoring tool, our customers can now host and distribute their gomo courses instantly to all of their users and to any device. Our in-built analytics completes the solution, giving users a one-stop shop for their multi-device e-learning needs." To celebrate the launch of the suite, gomo is giving away a year’s subscription to the gomo authoring tool (valued at $2490/ £1480) at their stand at Learning Technologies 2015. This allows up to four users 12 months of collaborative, multi-device e-learning authoring free of charge. Further details about the launch of the gomo learning suite and Learning Technologies 2015 can be found over the coming weeks on Twitter and Google+. The post gomo announces its brand new gomo learning suite appeared first on gomo Learning.

In today’s world, your learners may access the Internet using multiple devices such as mobiles, tablets, desktops and laptops. A survey by Google reveals that 98% of Internet users switch between devices with varying screen sizes in a single day. So, as a training manager, it imperative for you to make your eLearning courses accessible on all devices. There are two ways to deliver online courses on multiple devices. Develop multiple versions of same eLearning course Create a responsive eLearning course However, there are many problems in creating multiple versions of the same online course. Let us see what they are. Hope you find this post interesting. How do you deliver eLearning courses on multiple devices? We’d love to know. Related PostsCreative Ways to Present Click on Tab Interactivity in E-learning Courses - An InfographicMaking E-learning Courses Mobile: 5 Aspects to Consider - An InfographicTrends in The World of Online Training

What Makes Your Employees Feel Satisfied The Statistic Brain Research Institute of the American Institute of Stress reports that job stress tops the list of physical symptoms caused by stress that 77% of Americans experience regularly. Annual costs of stress-related missed days and health care in the United States is a staggering $300 billion. So what is it that today's employees want to feel happy and satisfied in their workplace? According to a combined Harvard Business Review and The Energy Project study of 12,000 primarily white collar workers indicates that workers need four essential needs to be met in order to be happy on the job. These four needs are: Physical needs. The worker needs to feel recharged and renewed in their workplace. This can come from a comfortable and relaxed work environment. Emotional needs. The worker needs to feel appreciated and valued. Managers that show their appreciation for their employees have an overall more satisfied staff. Having a fun and social work environment can also make the workers more productive as they want to come to work. Mental needs. The worker needs to be able to focus on important jobs without being constantly interrupted and chastised. This is where a micro-manager becomes a problem. Constantly looking over your employees shoulder and telling them what to do can cause more stress and dissatisfaction. Spiritual needs. The worker needs to feel that there is some purpose to the work that they do, a higher purpose than just taking home a paycheck. Human resources professionals can use this needs guideline in the development of new programs in the workplace. How To Support These Needs What are some of the ways you can ensure that corporate policies support these essential needs? Some practical ways include: Ensuring that workers have regular breaks to allow themselves to re-focus. In unionized workplaces, this is often a negotiated item, but in other settings (especially in white-collar environments), often workers take it as a badge of honor to stay at their desks through breaks and lunchtime. This is not conducive to maximum production. Taking a small break every 90 minutes is essential to the creativity and health of all workers. Regardless of the importance of the job and the skills of the worker, people should not stay more than 40 hours in their formal workplace setting. Creativity and innovation fades as the hours after that accumulate. Even a change of setting if the person moves to a home office, dons more comfortable clothing, and feels more relaxed, can spur creativity. Find programs to show employees that their work is valued. One company recently sent a memo to its staff to advice that on the three long weekends of the summer (from July to September), they were giving everyone the Friday before off as well as a way of saying thank-you for their hard work the rest of the year. The response was amazing. Effectively matching a worker's skill and aptitude to their job is another crucial component in reducing job stress and increasing worker satisfaction. When selecting applications for different positions, using programs that match personalities with tasks can also be effective. Every company has it's own method of making employees feel satisfied. There is no one-size fits all method, but as long as the employer is taking the initiative workers will feel appreciated. There is nothing worse than an organization that does not put effort meeting employees needs. Share with us your thoughts and opinions about what keeps employees satisfied and personal experiences you've had while on the job.  This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

As you and your teams begin work on the year ahead, you probably have a good idea of what was good and what wasn’t so good about the strategies and interventions you put into place during 2014. We’re not going to predict e-learning trends we might see in the future, because the reality is that the issues businesses face take a long time to conquer and certainly don’t change as fast as trends do. Maybe you know the learning infrastructure in your organisation is starting to creak, or the requests for mobile courses are beginning to pile up. It’s all well and good identifying a problem, but how do you go about turning these big ideals into practice? We’ve outlined a few and exactly how to get going with them, in order to help you get the ball rolling in 2015. Marketing e-learning If you’re used to building and finalising a course of e-learning and moving straight onto the next one, make some time in 2015 to do every intervention justice with a marketing campaign to support it. Treat learning like a commodity and woo your internal audience into taking the time out of of their hectic schedules to focus on their learning and development. Luckily for you, we wrote quite an extensive 2 part guide to the ins and outs of marketing e-learning at the back end of last year to get you on your way. Open up courses to a multi-device audience There’s been a good few years of device-based learning talk and I think it’s fair to say that mobile and tablets aren’t going away anytime soon. As our relationship with devices evolves alongside technological capability, we expect to do more and more from them, learning included. You may have weeks worth of desktop only or flash based learning content sitting on your LMS which (besides the odd brand refresh or compliance update) will still hold it’s value, so why not aim to repurpose it for multi-device delivery over the course of 2015. Making your content adaptive, responsive and multi-device ready doesn’t just please learners today, it also leaves you in the comfort that it will work on the myriad of devices that haven’t even been released yet. In order to make your organisation multi-device, you need to invest in an authoring tool, such as gomo, which allows you to create learning content that is truly multi-device/ responsive and adaptive. To see what gomo is capable of, sign up for our next webinar, where gomo’s Mike Alcock will show you the ins and outs of our authoring tool and how easy content creation is with gomo, in order to show you why multi-device learning is the way forward. Data, what data? There’s a fair chance that the data collected from courses and your LMS has shaped your 2015 learning strategy. If you’re one of the many organisations who are new to e-learning or are working to improve your infrastructure and don’t yet have this kind of data-led insight to help you shape L&D, don’t worry. The good news for you is that the gomo learning suite, our complete e-learning solution, aligns multi-device authoring with hosting, distribution and analytics, giving you a one stop shop for all things e-learning. Just imagine logging into your authoring tool through a browser, building a beautiful, multi-device course and instantly distributing it out to a direct link, intranet, app store, website or LMS, before tracking it using an analytics dashboard. We truly believe this will transform the authoring experience as you know it. Show me more… The global launch of the gomo learning suite is taking place at Learning Technologies 2015. Join us on the 28th and 29th of January at London Olympia where we have competitions, seminars, and more to celebrate the launch. If you’re a little further afield or won’t make it Learning Technologies, don’t sweat it, join our mailing list to get the latest on the gomo learning suite direct to your inbox as soon as anything is released. The post What should you do more of in 2015? appeared first on gomo Learning.

Global organizations are relying more and more on eLearning to train their geographically dispersed workforce. So, it is very important for the eLearning developers to develop standardized courseware which can be used across multiple environments. Today, in this blog, we will see the 7 instructional design standards. What are instructional design standards? These are the standards that observe the connection between the course purpose, course objectives, instructional content, instructional methods and the learner. Standard 1: Expression of the Course Purpose Course purpose describes the intended outcome, target audience and scope of the course.We need to explain who comes to the course, what the intended outcome is, what the purpose of the course is, who the learners are, what the scope of this course is, what its syllabus is, and how long the course would take to complete. Standard 2: Presence of Instructional Objectives It is very important that the course should state its instructional objectives. There is a lot of difference between the course purpose and instructional objectives. Instructional objectives should be performance-based. They should be clearly stated, and they should describe specific, measurable and observable skills or knowledge, the learner will acquire in each unit, module or lesson of the course. Standard 3: Consistency of Objectives With Course Content A course may have a very good instructional objective, but you should also make sure that the content of the course is sufficient and is consistent with the course objective. Each object should be supported approximately with the same amount of subject matter. Standard 4: Presentation, Demonstration, Facilitation of Learning This creative aspect of instructional design deals with how you present your content, how you demonstrate what the learner needs to learn and how you facilitatethe learning. Your courses should have two or more instructional methods to help the learner internalize, synthesize and apply the new information. Standard 5: Practice With Feedback The course should provide practice opportunities, with feedback and guidance, allowing yourlearners to apply their newly acquired knowledge or skills. Feedback is the most important aspect of a practice session. Make sure that feedback is given in a constructive manner to tell the learner why he is right, even if he answers the question correctly. In case he gets it wrong, we are guiding him back gently to the right response. Standard 6: Engagement Techniques The best way to engage a learner is to add interactivities in the courseware. Now-a-days, authoring tools give you options which help you to be very creative and use a number of engagement techniques. Standard 7: Assessment of Learning When it comes to assessments, you should make sure that each question is linked directly to a learning objective. If it is not testing the learning objective, it has no place in your final quiz. These standards are also intended to ensure a consistent, high quality learning experience for all learners. For more blogs on eLearning design and development, please visit www.commlabindia.com. Related Posts4 Effective Ways of Presenting Scenarios in E-learning CoursesGuidelines for Content Chunking to Design Effective Online CoursesQuick Tips to Help You Get Started With eLearning Content Design

Wherever technology is concerned, it’s a given that the picture is always changing. In the learning technologies space, we’re quite unique in that the picture hasn’t really changed too much. Yes, we have said goodbye to flash and hello to various devices, but there’s a fair likeness between what we were creating ten or fifteen years ago and what we create today. Our all-new product, the gomo learning suite, which is launching at Learning Technologies 2015, is the way we see cloud-based content authoring and delivery moving. The essence of adaptive, responsive e-learning is that of flexibility and ease, which we’re taking a step further with a complete e-learning solution which allows you to create, host, update and track multi-device e-learning from one place. This isn’t about changing how we build and deliver e-learning, but equipping L&D teams with more options, data and flexibility while allowing collaboration and aiding their learning infrastructure. In a world-exclusive seminar at Learning Technologies 2015, gomo’s Mike Alcock will introduce the gomo learning suite. There is no other authoring solution on the market with the capability of our learning suite, and we’re so excited to share it at Learning Technologies. Mike will build a responsive, adaptive HTML5 course in minutes, test it across desktop, tablet and smartphone and distribute it in seconds. Mike will then run analytics to see course statistics instantly… without a sniff of software downloads or installs. To be a part of the global launch of the gomo learning suite, join Mike at Learning Technologies 2015, 12:30, Theatre 3 on Wednesday 28th January. We’ll be tweeting left, right, and centre about the launch, so if you can’t make the event, be sure to follow us on Twitter @gomolearning or follow the official event hashtag #LT15UK. The post The future of multi-device authoring and delivery appeared first on gomo Learning.

ICCELET 2015 invites researchers, practitioners and academics to present their research findings, work in progress, case studies and conceptual advances in any branch of the above fields. ICCELET 2015 brings together varied groups of people with different perspectives, experiences and knowledge in one location. It aims to help practitioners find ways of putting research into practice and researchers to gain an understanding of real-world problems, needs and aspirations. ICCELET 2015 would cover all the original work in the field of Computing and Learning Technologies . This would lead to spread the knowledge and consolidate the recent advances in the respective fields. ICCELET 2015 topics include but are not limited to: Philosophies and Epistemologies for e-learning Learning Theories and Approaches for e-learning e-Learning Models Conceptual Representations Pedagogical Models e-Learning Pedagogical Strategies e-Learning Tactics Developing e-Learning for Specific Subject Domains Networked Information and Communication Literacy Skills E- Higher and Further Education Primary and Secondary Schools Workplace Learning Vocational Training Distance Learning Innovations in e-Assessment e-Moderating e-Tutoring e-Facilitating e-Learning to support communities and individuals The future of e-Learning Life long e-Learning Learning Content Management Systems & Learning Management Systems Applications of metadata and virtual reality Content Development Practical uses of authoring tools Knowledge management Advanced use of multimedia Issues in e-Learning Research Evaluation of Learning technologies e-Learning design, usability, evaluation The 3rd International Conference on Computing , E-Learning and Emerging Technology (ICCELET 2015) will be held at the Corus Hotel (Kuala Lubour, Malaysia) on July 25-26, 2015. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

Europe is the world’s second largest market for eLearning products and services. According to a report published by Docebo, eLearning revenues from this region are likely to touch $ 8.1 billion by 2016. Coming to Eastern Europe, Russia recorded the highest growth and is now considered to be a mature market. The main drivers of this growth are government investments (public sector funds) and the presence of numerous start-ups that deal with technologies for teaching purposes. "The eastern European Market and, above all, the Czech and Slovak E-Learning markets are in a steady situation." - Jan Miškovský, Business Development Manager, Gopas The most interesting shift is the increase in number of small and mid-sized businesses that have started adopting sophisticated eLearning technologies. With more affordable pricing offered by eLearning providers, theyare finding it easy to provide technology-enabled learning to their employees. Here, I would like to elaborate on this and other reasons for these companies to adopt eLearning. 1. Low costs with quick development time Everyone wants value for money. E-learning solutions are no exception. But, getting value for money can be confused with merely trying to save money, which is far from being the same thing. However, in recent years, with the rise in the use of rapid authoring tools to produce learning content, eLearning courses can be developed quickly, at low cost, without compromising on the quality. There has been a tremendous improvement in the opportunities available to innovative instructional designers. Thus, it now is possible for small and mid-sized enterprises to provide good technology-enabled training to their employees. 2. No need for technical experts - Rapid eLearning with authoring tools Earlier, in order to develop an eLearning course, Adobe Flash was used. Expert programmers are needed to develop the course using Flash, and companies had to hire technical experts with coding skills. But, this is not the case anymore. E-learning developers do not require complex programming knowledge and can develop fairly good online courses using rapid authoring tools. 3. Option to outsource while focusing on their core business activities With the advent of various rapid authoring tools, companies have varied options to develop eLearning courses. They could use in-house instructional designers to create story-boards and hire external vendors to do the production work. This way, they have complete control over the content and instructional strategy and do not have to worry about the routine production chores. On the other hand, they could also outsource the entire project to an external vendor and assign a subject-matter expert or project manager to liaise with the vendor to meet their requirements. It is much cheaper than hiring experts internally. Many small and mid-sized enterprises do not have the resources or the manpower to develop an eLearning in-house. However, when they have cost-effective outsourcing options, they can outsource this task to external vendors and focus on their core business activities. It is for this reason that small and mid-sized enterprises find eLearning to be a viable option more than ever before. What do you think? Related PostsHow to Create Section 508 E-learning Course Using Flash5 Useful Tips to Select a Right E-learning Outsourcing VendorDrivers for Adopting eLearning in Corporate Segment

The way we analyse the digital world has had a profound impact on how we strategize, build and deploy digital ‘stuff’ like websites, emails and of course, learning. Despite the fact that learning analytics have existed in some detail via SCORM for a rather long time, the conversation around learning analytics has really begun to pick up over the last couple of years. Learning analytics using SCORM are harnessed via a Learning Management System, meaning that historically, you need one if you want to analyse your courses. For larger organisations, this is no issue, because the numbers of courses and learners mean that it’s more than likely there will be an LMS in place. For learning design teams on a budget, it has long been difficult to achieve effective tracking without the backing of an expensive Learning Management System. Today, as flexibility and technological capability correlate more and more, it’s no longer an issue for teams of any size to benefit from learning analytics. With the gomo learning suite, you can have it all - beautiful multi-device content which allows you to see what your learners are doing at all times, with or without an LMS. In our session on day 2 of Learning Technologies 2015, Mike Alcock is taking to the stage to explore how you can create a scalable learning ecosystem at low cost, complete with learning analytics. In a session dedicated to exploring learning analytics and the surrounding landscape, Mike will demonstrate how you can use gomo to create, host, update and then track learning with or without an LMS. He will show you how easy it is to create adaptive, responsive content once and distribute it via a website, intranet, public app store, direct link or existing LMS. The seminar is aimed at learning designers and L&D teams who want to: Distribute their own content on a budget Host their course without having to create a whole new platform Supercharge their existing LMS with TinCan data Track their audience across different devices Sound good? Grab a seat at Theatre 6, 11:15 on Thursday 29th January of Learning Technologies 2015 to find out more. Can’t make it to Learning Technologies? Follow us on Twitter and stay tuned for exclusive updates on the launch of the gomo learning suite. Follow @gomolearning The post Creating a scalable ecosystem complete with learning analytics appeared first on gomo Learning.

Millennials And Faith The Pew Research Center’s study on America’s Changing Religious Landscape released on May 12, 2015, contained alarming, and disheartening, information about the Millennial Generation’s decline in identifying themselves as Christians. According to the study, the number of Millennials identifying themselves as having no religious affiliation increased by 9% since 2007. Over 30% of Millennials claimed to have no religious affiliation. This statistic has set off alarm bells in the Christian community. Well, honestly, these alarm bells started ringing years ago, but this study raises the volume to a deafening roar. The question has been asked a million times, how do we reach Millennials in a meaningful way and engage with Millennials to show them how they fit into modern Christianity? How Can eLearning Draw Millennials Back to Faith I believe the answer lies in the way Millennials are already interacting with the world around us. Churches cannot reach this generation using the same techniques that worked with previous generations. Christians need to meet Millennials where they live, on-line. Many churches have already started to do this, but failed to get the long-term traction that they were hoping for. So, where is it going wrong? Look at one of the most effective and prolific arenas in which churches engage with their congregation: small group curriculum and discipleship courses. The small group curriculum model has changed very little since Saddleback Church introduced the HOST small group ministry concept in 2001: ordinary people with HEARTS for unconnected people to OPEN their homes, SERVE a few refreshments, and TURN on the VCR. Now it is a DVD or Blu-ray player instead of a VCR, or maybe even a podcast, but this model is still the most prevalent means of engaging members outside of Sunday gatherings. Even the largest churches with a huge on-line presence rely on this model. More often than not, existing on-line curriculum consists of 45-minute sermons (either a podcast or video) accompanied by a PDF of questions to discuss in person. Sometimes there is a discussion forum included, but typically there are no interactive elements beyond an email address to contact if you have any questions. Why isn’t this model working to draw in and maintain a relationship with Millennials? The root of the problem is that they are not being equipped with the proper outreach materials. The Millennials that are already attending church and are committed are willing to trudge through a 45-minute audio segment from a pastor that they know and respect, but the chances of an unconnected Millennial dedicating a 45-minute chunk of their day to a recording of a sermon are slim to nil. Small group and discipleship curriculum is all or nothing at this point, either you invest the time or you disengage completely. Millennials need to be given an instructionally sound alternative, an easily digestible substitute to the cumbersome 20th century model. Start by looking at how Millennials regard eLearning. As of 2012, more than 30% of college students attended at least one class on-line, and that number increases every year. Focus specifically on Millennial students and that number jumps closer to 60%. As Millennials join the workforce, corporate on-line training options have increased by about 9% per year over the past 5 years! Over 50% of corporate training includes some element of eLearning. Millennials are exposed to well-designed eLearning at work and at school, but when they go to church, they are totally turned off by the outdated content being offered to them there. If the Christian community came to embrace eLearning principles and standards and applied them to their small group and discipleship events, the sky would be the limit for reaching Christians and non-Christians Millennials. The Christian community could use eLearning as an opportunity to engage with an audience that may otherwise never set foot in a church. Engaging, well-designed, "sticky" eLearning content generated with the help of Instructional Design Professionals could be better engagement tools to Millennials than any other outreach tool. This could take many forms: posting micro-videos on YouTube of Gospel-based principles, gamification of small group curriculum, interactive eLearning content posted on church websites, etc. Look at the success of the YouVersion Bible App and reading plans. There is a hunger for this information in an on-line format; we just have to make it palatable. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.